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This book explores the space between joy and tragedy, happiness and despair, sincerity and absurdity. A husband won't throw his wife a party for her thirty-third birthday, a woman becomes obsessed with re-decorating her familial cabin, a couple's west coast elopement turns dangerous, a father must talk his daughter out of cancelling her wedding, a mother meets her thirty-year-old daughter for the first time, three friends' lives collide at an ...

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This book takes the principles of influence and persuasion into the role of management. Many books have been written on leadership, but few address the actual execution of the day-to-day world of management. This book is a comprehensive new approach to coaching behavioural change that will get extraordinary performance from everyone. It helps managers get their people to: ask for the business, take ownership of their targets, become more entre...

A new series from the author of the much-loved Russell Quant books. The work of a Disaster Recovery Agent is unforgiving. Brutal. Violent. And rarely glamorous. But Adam Saint quietly travels the world, cleaning up after other people's catastrophes and keeping the mess away from his well-ordered private life. This time, however, the blood is seeping closer and closer to home. When a respected colleague is murdered at a disaster site, Saint is ...

Do you need to give yourself and your organization an energy boost? What do you need to help you re-focus, re-energize, and re-invent how you and your team see life and work? Do you want to see your team Increase efficiency and creativity Increase endurance with energy to spare Feel revitalized and positive Be extraordinary with your clients Be driven to be outstanding in the field? BOOST! offers a six-step plan to improve engagement, and it w...

Reveals the timeliness of the growing discourse around issues of fathering and fatherhood. This book examines the state of cross-cultural fatherhood as seen by black, Asian, South Asian, and, First Nations men.

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A collection of eight stories.

Thalia Spencer is missing. Is she in trouble or is she simply avoiding her family?When Thalia's conservative tycoon father confesses to private investigator Calli Barnow that he offered his daughter money to give up her girlfriend and start dating men, Calli thinks she knows where to start looking. She and her best friend, novice drag queen Dewey, comb the bars and clubs of Toronto's gay village, hoping to find Thalia hiding in plain sight. Bu...

Do you have a name such as Willow, River, Oak, or Sunshine? Have you ever lived in a commune, or done yoga naked with your family? If yes, then you are an Adult Child of Hippies (ACOH). ACOHs grew up in extreme conditions: eating sprouts, and lugging herbal tea to school in their Thermoses (if they were fortunate enough to make it to school). ACOHs were born and brought up mostly in the 70s and 80s. As their parents reveled in the countercultu...

This is the story of the men and women of 23 Field Squadron - Op Archer Roto 2, comprising soldiers, sailors and airmen drawn from across the Canadian Forces and beyond. The intent of this book is to mesh their very personal stories with the Squadron War Diary, all within the framework of the overall 1 RCR Battle Group mission. This mission was accomplished by the explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) operators, heavy equipment operators, armoured...

A gay wedding gone bad. A missing groom. An unsullied reputation at risk. Enter Russell Quant -- a cute, gay, rookie private detective with a nose for good wine and bad lies. Quant is off to France on his first big case. From the chic but sinister streets of Paris, he eats, drinks, and sleuths his way south to the pastel-coloured promenade of Sanary-sur-Mer. Back in Saskatoon, Quant comes face-to-face with a client who may be the bad guy, a qu...

Mike Spry's debut collection of fiction revels in his characters' idiosyncrasies and shortcomings in ten stories filled with wit and reverie. In Distillery Songs' original and compelling narratives, dogs smoke, monkeys pop pills, cats are humourless, and Jesus drinks hot toddies. With a voice that Vallum magazine calls "a more obsessive, quirky, and pop-cultured version of Charles Bukowski, " Spry confronts issues of love, loss, addiction, and...

Breathe, Freedom is a comprehensive stop-smoking program using self-hypnosis. Although smoking is viewed medically as a chronic relapsing condition, psychological and medical research reveals that comprehensive smoking cessation programs boast as high as a 50% success rate after twelve months. Breathe, Freedom includes not only the best known methods to help smokers quit, but also incorporates the best of what we know about hypnotic interventi...

Canadians are saddled with over 1.4 trillion dollars in consumer debt and less than 75% have three months' savings in an emergency account. If they want to be financially free, something has to change. It starts with this book! This is a guide that will teach you: How only paying what your credit card company requests might leave you burdened with a balance for decades, How to protect your financial identity and how failing to do so could resu...

Mortgage Freedom will save the average Canadian homeowner tens of thousands of dollars and help shave years off of their mortgage. In this book Alexander Aitken offers readers a comprehensive method to structure their debt in a way that will provide tax deductions and tax refunds for most Canadians. The book explains the type of mortgage required, ways to accelerate the plan, the investments used, how to use tax refunds, recent tax rulings, an...

The founder of former mutual fund company Mavrix Fund Management Inc, he is well-known across the country for his maverick investment style, and enthusiasm for Harley-Davidson motorbikes. This title exposes the bull dished out by decades of advertisements, the press, and others who profit from perpetuating bad investment dogma.

At the dead end of a desolate country road, a late night meeting suddenly becomes an ambush. Gay private detective Russell Quant is faced with personal threats he can't ignore, a friend who may be a foe, and a cagey client with a treacherous monkey on his back. As Quant trails a menacing blackmailer known only as Loverboy, he finds himself immersed in the midnight world of e-dating and parking lot romance. Lured to New York City, Quant tests h...

Ask Your Mortgage Broker is based on real-life stories and hard-earned experience that Blair Anderson has collected over the last nineteen years of his career as a mortgage broker. It illuminates the residential mortgage brokerage industry in Canada. This book is an expose of the industry's history, utilitarianism, and best-kept secrets. It is a must-read for every existing or potential homeowner and it meticulously debunks the myths about mor...

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